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Powerwolf is a German/Romanian power metal band created in 2003 by Charles and Matthew Greywolf. The group is notable for having rather dark themes and images, both musically and lyrically, both counteractions to traditional power metal music and including usage of corpse paint, gothic-tinged compositions and songs about Romanian werewolf legends and dark religious tales, though the latter is done ironically.
In 2003, "brothers" Charles and Matthew Greywolf, who had been playing together for years, decided to create a band, and this is how Powerwolf started. Soon the "brothers" added French drummer Stéfane Funèbre and German keyboardist Falk Maria Schlegel to the band, but couldn't find a suitable singer to complete Powerwolf. In the meantime, the band started writing, and on holidays in Romania, Charles and Matthew met Attila Dorn. Dorn, who studied Classical Opera at the Music Academy of Bucharest, became the frontman of Powerwolf. With Dorn's love of Romanian werewolf legends, the band created their debut album, Return in Bloodred, which used these same legends as the basis of a lot of the lyrics. In 2007 they followed up with their second album, Lupus Dei, a concept album starring a wolf as the main character and his fall from bloodlust to enlightenment.
Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011), was a Northern Irish musician, most widely recognised as a blues singer and guitarist.
In a career dating back to the 1960s, Moore played with artists including Phil Lynott and Brian Downey during his teens, leading him to memberships with the Irish bands Skid Row and Thin Lizzy on three separate occasions. Moore shared the stage with such blues and rock luminaries as B.B. King, Albert King, Colosseum II, George Harrison and Greg Lake, as well as having a successful solo career. He guested on a number of albums recorded by high profile musicians, including a cameo appearance playing the lead guitar solo on "She's My Baby" from Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3.
Moore started performing at a young age, having picked up a battered acoustic guitar at the age of eight. He got his first quality guitar at the age of 14, learning to play the right-handed instrument in the standard way despite being left-handed. He moved to Dublin in 1968 at the age of 16. His early musical influences were artists such as Albert King, Elvis Presley, The Shadows and The Beatles. Later, having seen Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in his home town of Belfast, his own style was developing into a blues-rock sound that would be the dominant form of his career in music.
Satani, Satani, in amus dignita
Satani, Satani, e vade retro sagitta
We came to fight in the army of Christ
Armed with a fistful of steel
Send to inferno the demons allied
Prayer for prayer the deal
We are the storm and the wicked inside,
More than a martyr can take
Fire them back to the dark of the night
Pray for this time we awake
And we all
Die, die, die tonight
Sanctified with dynamite
Die, die, dynamite
Halleluja!
We are damned in the night
Sanctified with dynamite
And at midnight we come for your blood
We are cursed and denied
Holy lord of dynamite
And at midnight forever we are
Die, die, dynamite
Born of tornado, we bring you the night
Pray for we all detonate
Heroes in heaven and servants in life
Kill us before it's too late
Like a messiah we end crucified
Into damnation we rode
Torn into pieces of soldiers divine
Ehre sei gott, we explode
And we all
Die, die, die tonight
Sanctified with dynamite
Die, die, dynamite
Halleluja!
We are damned in the night
Sanctified with dynamite
And at midnight we come for your blood
We are cursed and denied
Holy lord of dynamite
And at midnight forever we are
Die, die, dynamite
Die, die, dynamite
Die, die, dynamite
Halleluja!
Die, die, dynamite
Die, die, dynamite
Die, die, dynamite
We are damned in the night
Sanctified with dynamite
And at midnight we come for your blood
We are cursed and denied
Holy lord of dynamite
And at midnight forever we are